
This is objective! So it partakes in objectivity, fine, but is objectivity objective? This isn't a logical paradox, but no. Objectivity is distinguished from subjectivity, together they make up the whole, and the demarcation separating them is subjective. Objectivity belongs to subjectivity, it is a special case - someone might even argue that the work of civilisation has been to draw up the objective (world, cosmos) from the murky depths of subjectivity and as such it is a work, a creation by subjectivity out of subjectivity. It's like saying that order is a special case of chaos, but if that sounds nihilistic you need to recall that all these evaluations belong to order, they serve to buttress it, but only from the side of order. Think about it without adjectives and without adverbs, and see that every noun including the most proper is only another kind of adjective. What is it then that is qualified? It is neither one nor many, and not not-one nor not-many. Bodhi, svaha!
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